Display and sales container



1,529,677 J. w. VOGAN DISPLAY AND SALES CONTAINER Filed Dec. 12, 1922 Jon/v W Vow/v,

Patented Mar. 17, 1925.

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s-iApplicationfiled December 12y 1922. SeriaLNoyfiOSAGO.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN Wwllosi n, a;

citizen of fiche: United yS-tates, residing at Portland, in {ll-118 county. OfI- Multnon ah and q State of Oregon, haveyi-n-vented anew. and

useful Display andgfiales Container, of

the provision of a container for small unit merchandise-Which 'forms substantial .pro-

vtection .during: the handling thereof and c which .is i quicklyremoizab-le for displaying the goodsfor aconsideraible; depth; theproduction of a, simplifiedbox.construction for candy and the-likealand the supplying of a packing for merchandise, such as candy which willuadmitiofiinstant removal of the enclosing element in order to completely display' the oontentsnof the container.

These, and such other objects as may hereinafter appear, are obtained by the novel construction, combination, and arrangement of the several parts of my device, which device is fully described in the ac- 0 companying specification, and in the single sheet of drawing, made a part thereof, and in. which Fig. 1 is an elevation of my device with the parts thereof in dissociated position;

Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the device with the several parts thereof associated for use as a packing container;

Fig. 3 is a vertical section of the bottom or tray portion thereof after removal of the top or cover and sides or body thereof for displaying the contents; and

Fig. 4 is a horizontal section disclosing a modified form of the device.

Like reference characters are used to designate similar parts in the drawing and the description which follows.

The complete device comprises three parts, namely, a base, bottom or tray; a body, or side portion; and a top or cover.

The ordinal 10 is used to designate the tray or base portion, which is substantially identical in construction with the bottom or base portion of a flanged telescoping candy box, the side walls 11 of the base portion being, in the form disclosed, quite shallow. In

do with a,container-adaptedfor ,us'e n; con- 1 Figs. 2 and 3, candy is shown packed ;in,t he device, and it a vill. be noted that the ana] or portion ofthe merchandise .project's well above tlieshallowwalls l1. i

Suchibottom section 10 may .hetformedpf two thicknesses of material ieXcept at lts edges, theupper thickness of material. .eX-

tending wholly .a cross the .bottom of the box and being bent upwardly toforin the side walls 11,-while the lower oriexterior'thick-f .ness extends across'the bottom of the-container and projects outwardlypbeyond the upper thickness to form flanges'12.

i nated 13 and is 'ina single continuous strip having the same con-figuration..asxthdbase a so 1 1g ovcrlit about the, side orbody; 113, so

that when the device I is completely assembled, it may be said that part 13 telescopes over part 10 and is in turn telescoped rabody or side portion of.th'ebox ispdesby part I l. The depending walls 15 which extend downwardly over 'body 13 a considerable portion thereof securely reinforce the latter against bulge or rupture.

It is manifest that the shape of thecontainer may not only be rectangular or cylin-,

drical, which shapes are most frequently met in containers for merchandise, but other shapes may be employed without departing from the invention so long as the telescoping effect of the several parts thereof herein described is obtainable.

Pasteboard, wood, or metal may be employed as the material for the construction of my device.

In packing my containers for shipment of merchandise therein, it is customary to place the body portion 13 in position upon the base 10, and dispose units of merchandise therein in such arrangement that such me'rit is usual to first remove the cover 14;, and then to carefully remove the body 13 from tray 10, exercising caution not to disturb the arrangement of the goods therewithin and to restore such units of merchandise as t have become accidentally displaced in transportation to their original arrangement.

vThe illustrations in Figs. 2 and 3 clearly indicate how the container may first be em ployed for packing and later for displaying candy.

' In Fig. 4 a slightly modified form of the invention is disclosed. In such modified form the base and cover are identical with the same parts as when employed in the preferred form. The body 13 comprises, in the rectangular form of the modified container shown in Fig.4, four sections, two of which sections although abutting are not continuous as in the-preferred form. It is necessary inlpacking merchandise in a container having a body'port-ion 13' to hold the free ends of the two disjoined sections together, either manually or by a paster or' the like, until the container is. filled. The

continuous depending flange 15 upon the cover 14, upon seating the cover about bodyv 13", will prevent accidental separation of such free ends. Facility in removing the body portion 13"is of course acquired by such open-ended constructiom Compact ness in packing of the containers is obtainedby such'modified formof the device if the body "section thereof is high. In

packing, cover 14 may be slid rover base 10 while the body portion 13 may be packed as a strip material or folded up compactly with one section disposed upon another.

e What has been said-about compact. packing in the modified form of the device is equally true of the preferred form and particularly the rectangular type thereof. The body portion 13 may be flattened out by folding opposite corners thereof at 180 for Y margin within the border of which the contents of the container are packed in layers extending above the top ofsaid flange, the middle section, encircling said bottom flange and extending thereabove, and the top section having a peripheral flange extending over and downwardly upon said middle section, both said top and middle sections being readily removable to admit of the display of the contents of the container as packed upon said bottom section.

2. A container as described'in claim 1,

and in which saidmiddle section comprises a strip of sheet material adapted to be held about said bottom section by said top section. 7

JOHN w. VOGAN. 

